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præmature

præmature is the obsolete spelling of premature.

Meaning of premature

Adjective

premature (comparative more premature, superlative most premature)

  1. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
    • a premature birth
  2. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
    • I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain.1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
  3. (informal) Suffering from premature ejaculation.

See all 4 meanings of premature

Forms of præmature

comparativemore præmature
superlativemost præmature

Questions about præmature

What is præmature the obsolete spelling of?
Præmature is the obsolete spelling of premature.

Words near præmature in the dictionary

  1. præludes
  2. præludia
  3. præludium
  4. prælusive
  5. præmarital
  6. præmature
  7. præmia
  8. præmise
  9. præmised
  10. præmises
  11. præmising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præmature (page history and authors); premature (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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